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Re: AV client for Macs
From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:49:08 +1300
On 6/11/2009, at 9:50 AM, Chris Green wrote:
We deployed Sophos for Mac AV. It really was a PITA with FileVault but seems to be well support these days. It's a tad bit annoying for an end user to install since they have install and then enter a user/password for the installer but that's how they make everyone pay up.
I echo Chris's comments about sophos. I have not tired the latest release with filevault on snow leopard but file vault and sophos have not played well together in the past. Currently I'm running F-secure AV for the Mac (Beta) Free down load -- seems to work (in the sense that it does not impact performance or interfere with filevault) but who knows what protection it gives with so little Mac malware actually in the wild (long may it stay that way!). It does not detect Windows malware -- that suits me as I often deliberately have samples of windows malware on my mac book. THis used to be problematic with Sophos from point of view of a security professional. I also know that some early betas failed to detect some generic unix perl malware... For the record we maintain two AV products, Nod32 for windows and Sophos for Macs. We currently do not mandate AV for Macs but want to be in a position where we can deploy it quickly if we have to (we have a fairly small number of licenses but maintain the servers and updating infrastructure). Russell
Current thread:
- AV client for Macs Stanclift, Michael (Nov 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: AV client for Macs Eric C. Lukens (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Stanclift, Michael (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Chris Green (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Adam Nave (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs WILLIAM I ARNOLD (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs King, Ronald A. (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Jason C. Belford (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Pettis, Frederick (Nov 05)
- Re: AV client for Macs Cal Frye (Nov 06)
- Re: AV client for Macs Russell Fulton (Nov 07)